Finished, or finished enough for you.
Basements are what we do. Two ways: turn-key, or a shell taken to paint-ready so you finish the last ten percent yourself and keep the money.
Pay us for the hard part.
Framing, the trades, the permits and the drywall are the part you cannot do on a Saturday. Paint and baseboard, you can.
Shell
Handed over primed and ready for your brush. You finish on your own timeline, at your own budget.
- Permits pulled, every inspection scheduled
- Demolition, layout and framing
- Electrical, plumbing and HVAC rough-in by licensed tradesmen
- Egress window cut, if you need one
- Insulation and air sealing
- Drywall hung, taped, textured and primed
- Photographs of every wall before it closes
- You do: paint, trim, doors, flooring, fixtures
Finished
Everything in the shell, taken all the way through. You get keys, not a project.
- Everything in the shell
- Primed and two coats of paint
- Doors, base and casing
- Flooring throughout
- Bathroom finished, tile through fixtures
- Lighting, devices and trim-out
- Final clean and a closeout package
Projects.
Every basement we finish, photographed properly and priced in the open.
Four things most remodelers will not put in writing.
A fixed price
Not a range that drifts. One number, itemised line by line, with the exclusions listed as plainly as the inclusions.
Every change signed first
Additions get a cost and a day count in writing before anyone picks up a tool. Nothing appears on the final invoice that you have not already agreed to.
The same people, start to finish
The person who priced your job is on site building it. No project manager you never meet, no crew that changes every week.
Photographed before it closes
Every stud bay, before insulation and again before drywall. You keep the set, so nobody drills into a water line in ten years.
Nothing on the last invoice you have not already signed.
We come look at it
Ninety minutes with a tape and a flashlight. We check the slab, the foundation, the panel and the ducts. You get a price range out loud before you get anything in writing.
Fixed price, line by line
Every line itemised, with what is included and what is not. We sit down and go through it with you rather than emailing it over. Payments are tied to inspections passing, not to a date.
Changes get priced before they get built
Add something mid-job and you get the cost and the extra days in writing first. We photograph every wall before it closes and you keep the set.
Three owners, no salesmen.
Tibble Fork Construction is Calvin Huish, Nate Cowley and Matthew Fuller. Whoever prices your basement is one of the people building it.
We came out of Huish Materials LLC, the family concrete recycling yard in Salt Lake City.
Calvin Huish
[Two honest sentences. What he does on a job.]
Nate Cowley
[Two honest sentences.]
Matthew Fuller
[Two honest sentences.]
Straight answers.
What does the shell package actually leave me?
A basement that is framed, wired, plumbed, insulated, drywalled, textured and primed, with every inspection passed. Walls and ceilings are ready for paint. What is left is paint, baseboard and casing, interior doors, flooring and light fixtures.
Most people do it over a few months, a room at a time. If you get halfway in and want us to take the rest, call and we will price it.
What does a basement cost?
Two basements the same size can differ by $40,000. Six things drive it: bedroom count, whether there is a bathroom, whether that bath has a tiled shower, whether we have to cut an egress window through concrete, whether there is plumbing under the slab already, and whether the panel has room.
A shell runs about a third less than a full finish. You get a real range at the site visit, before you have spent anything.
How long does it take?
Six to eight weeks for a full finish, four to five for a shell, plus permitting up front. Inspections and material lead times are not in our control and one rescheduled inspection can push the end date a week. We tell you the day we find out.
Do you pull permits?
Always. An unpermitted basement causes problems at resale and with your insurer. Egress, ceiling height, smoke and CO alarms and combustion air for your furnace all get inspected for good reason.
[CONFIRM WITH YOUR CITY BEFORE PUBLISHING: how a shell gets finaled when the homeowner completes the rest. An open permit is a resale problem, so the answer needs to live here in writing.]